{"product_id":"the-blumkin-project-a-biographical-novel-9781590511541","title":"The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky's secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin's orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a young man in 1980s Paris, Christian Salmon identified strongly as a Bolshevik, drawn to the glorious October Revolution immortalized in literature and films such as Warren Beatty's \u003ci\u003eReds\u003c\/i\u003e and Sergei Eisenstein's trilogy. Picking up the thread of his dream thirty years later, he sets out to reconstruct Blumkin's shadowy past and ever-shifting identity with a trove of manuscripts, documents, rare photographs, and personal souvenirs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590511541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Christian Salmon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42314662478005,"sku":"9781590511541","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_be52c7b0-8317-4aef-b173-7db20d92ff4d.jpg?v=1659412011","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-blumkin-project-a-biographical-novel-9781590511541","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}